GHOST Campus

Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle review

By Bethany Geiger

At its peak population—about 400 students and 50 full-time
professors—Bard College at Simon's Rock resembles a small ant
colony. Everybody's busy. Everybody's going somewhere. Midsemester,
when everybody's here, you walk down the street and know almost
every face and every name. It's kind of nice. You sometimes feel
like you're in a 1950s' suburb. "Hey, Herb, how's the wife and
kids?" "Not bad, not bad." "Study group at 6:30, right?" "Sure,
sure,